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Grexit sends investors running for bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... these concerns it also has a negative impact on household wealth and spending. "A rough estimate is that a 5% fall in eurozone GDP, were it to occur, and would knock 0.4% off Australian economic growth. Oliver told Financial Standard that while it's ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... interesting one showing significant potential compared with other emerging markets. According to Hanson-Lawson, 63% of Russian GDP is represented by consumption, compared with about 35% for China, although indices in Russia are weighted around 75% to ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... be sure, to be sure... there was also factual negative Spanish news last night. It's now officially in recession with real GDP falling by 0.3% in the first quarter following a similar 0.3% contraction in the previous period. But we were already expecting ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... than in the past, said David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. "Today, Asia contributes more to world GDP growth than the US and the EU does combined," he said. While there has been concern that consumption rates in Asian economies ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... scenario. Short of the predicted end of days on 21-12-2012, that scenario is everyone's worst nightmare - an 8% drop in real GDP; the unemployment rate to hit 13% (it peaked at 10.2% back in 2009); house prices to slide by 21%; and, a 50% dive in stock ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... anyway. Net government debt is consequentially expected to remain low, peaking in nominal terms at just $145 billion or 8.9% of GDP in 2013-14 before falling to 7.3% by the end of the forward estimates. The face value of government debt securities on ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... 2011/2012 Budget Papers trumpeted an underlying cash deficit of A$22.6 billion because Treasury thought that Australian real GDP would grow by 4% this fiscal year. It's not. My calculations show that the economy would still struggle to reach the 3% growth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... around its lowest level since late February after poor US figures such as slower growth in consumer spending and first-quarter GDP. Stock markets in China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand were closed ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... topping expectations but economic indicators remain mixed, albeit positive on balance. Figures out last week showed US real GDP expanded at a lower-than-expected 2.2% annualised rate in the first quarter from 3.0% in the December quarter. However, consumer ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... soared plus 2.3% (Apple's better than expected earnings result helped here). The Fed saw that it was good. It raised its 2012 GDP growth outlook to 2.4%-2.9% from 2.2%-2.7% previously. It reduced its unemployment rate forecasts to 7.8%-8.0% from 8.2%-8.5%. ...